[anonzzzies]

At least as I see my colleagues who buy special keyboards to type code faster and still being hellishly unproductive, deleting and rewriting while I prefer to think before typing and have a solution that works when I type it in instead of iterating over solutions that cannot work in the first place. When I type it's fast, I just don't do it so much compared to my peers, but I am more productive delivering working code.

Writing with a pen I tried, but no-one, including me, can read it after...

[umanwizard]

People buy special keyboards because they enjoy using them, not because they’re faster to type on.

[doubled112]

What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals.

I don't know about anybody else, but I spend 8-18 hours a day attached to a mouse and keyboard. I'm not going to use one that doesn't feel good to me.

[a1369209993]

Like with most things, the problem is usually that we can't find peripherals that are actually nice, rather than overpriced (and endorsed by shills). If the options are paying 40$ for a shitty keyboard, versus paying 400$ for a still equally (if not more) shitty keyboard, the choice is pretty obvious.

[foofie]

> What baffles me is that some people aren't willing to buy nice peripherals.

Buying nice peripherals is like buying nice clothes.

[dmoy]

Or sometimes 'cus it's less pain-inducing for the wrists

[anonzzzies]

If they tell me they buy them to type faster on then I tend to assume that's the reason.

[umanwizard]

I think that’s an incorrect assumption. People are often bad at articulating why they enjoy something.

[crabbone]

Not if you play videogames, but yeah, for writing code keyboard speed doesn't make a difference.

[toss1]

I'm generally with you in terms of think—then—write, and wondering how people can write/type rapidly then endlessly edit. But I do have some modes where it works to write out incomplete thoughts, getting them out of my head, and then edit them into something workable.

Perhaps some people just really need to take that to extremes, getting out of their head all their fragmentary or preliminary thoughts, and filtering and working them down on paper or the screen?

It generally seems (to me) that a good-heavy amount of thinking first works best and/or is most productive, but overall, we all have different brains, training, and experiences, so I'd go with: "whatever works for you" (but try multiple methods).